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[littlenog]

Of all the games here this one I think has the highest user rating of all the games at 4.1

[Scatty]

It is a timeless game too, after all

[marshal99]

Why did Simtex fold anyway ? They only had a few titles but those titles (MOO , MOM) were very popular and i'm sure sold a lot to have make a tidy profit for the small company.
Their 2 impending titles were highly anticipated before they folded , Mech Lords & Guardian : heroes of justice sounded fantastic and would no doubt proven to be a success. It's such a shame that both projects will never see the light of day.

Mech Lords
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns0hjjdCH5E

[pepe4158]

Yeah dunno Marshal why they folded.....wish someone knew exactly?

I just heard from rumors, that when they had programmed MoM, Sid Meir had allowed them to use his Civ 1 engine as a starting point in exchange for a share of the company or something like that, and you can obviously see the similarties.

Sid then changed the Civ. games out of the city screen, and never made a tactical combat for it, both mistakes in my opinion, but even so, Civ 4 is a great game.

What I am getting at is, at least I would bet, for there to be an actual MoM II, using a similar, but updated game engine, one would have to get by Sid Meir first cuz hed probably sue to stop it.......but dunno if thats the real case?

[Borodin]

The Civ engine wasn't Sid's. He was responsible for the AI, and in any case, the engine (and title) were owned by Microprose. So when MoM was made, Sid didn't have to be involved, because MoM was also a Microprose title.